Mincor Resources founder and managing director David Moore has announced plans to step down from his role from early next year, but will remain with the company as deputy chairman.
SPECIAL REPORT: Home builder Julian Walter and company director Tony Howarth have spoken to Business News about how they are working together on the transition to the next generation at JWH Group.
Supermarket wholesaler Metcash has suffered a 12.7 per cent decline in underlying earnings as the food and grocery price war eats into its bottom line.
Gold has dropped almost two per cent to a near six-year low, set for a sixth straight weekly decline under pressure from a firm US dollar and prospects of a US interest rate rise in December.
A local geologist and company director is launching a website for trading excess mining equipment, joining similar operations aiming to establish a secondary market for the industry.
This week we discuss Hancock prospecting, Michael Chaney, recent developments in the Pilbara and Kwinana and look at Western Australian business dynasties including one property company that has marked 120 years.
Caravan and accommodation manufacturer Fleetwood Corporation has foreshadowed a first-half loss of $5 million, while also announcing that its chairman and one of its long-serving directors intend to leave the board.
The Australian share market has faded into the red after a positive start, dragged back by the absence of a lead from US markets, and investor fatigue.
A New Zealand-based insolvency expert has been put in charge of a new state government authority that will decide how $1.7 billion from the Bell Group litigation will be distributed.
The opening of Furniture Gallery’s third store in Osborne Park in late October capped a busy 18 months for two sisters behind the rapidly growing new entrant to Perth’s interior retail scene.
Indigenous contracting in the Pilbara is getting more competitive, more complicated and arguably more divisive, as players chase a shrinking pool of work.
Developers say the extension of a buffer around industrial areas near Kwinana has the potential to set a dangerous precedent over the erosion of the rights to develop land.
Mineral sands explorer Sheffield Resources has raised $5 million for its Thunderbird project, and plans to bring in an additional $2 million via a share purchase plan.
Business News has added a new feature to its product suite, with subscribers now able to choose from a selection of industries to deliver a personalised weekly news and data update via our new ‘BN Weekender’ email service.
Australia Post has been given the thumbs up by the consumer watchdog to raise the price of a basic stamp by more than 40 per cent while taking longer to deliver the letters they are stuck on.
The Australian share market has opened higher, following positive leads from European bourses overnight with Wall Street closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Former Western Australian under-treasurer John Langoulant has questioned the business community for failing to reprimand the state government’s loss of a AAA credit rating, at a Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre forum today.
